A JUDGE has been criticised for allowing a paedophile to spend his wedding night in a hotel.

Kelvin Wagstaff, 36, from Bridgend, is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to charges of sexual offences against two girls, aged seven and 10, last year.

But before the hearing at Cardiff Crown Court was adjourned, Wagstaff's barrister, Jennet Treharne, convinced Judge Phillip Richards to relax the bail conditions to allow him to spend Friday night - when he is due to get married - at the hotel where the wedding will take place. His fiancee said she had no plans to cancel the wedding, despite her partner being put on the sex offenders register.

Conservative MP and AM David Davies, who recently launched a campaign opposing the early release of offenders, said the acceptance of the bail application was inappropriate.

He said, "People have to ask why this man is being allowed to stay in a hotel. If he has committed a serious sex offence, he should be in jail - end of story."

Wagstaff, who lives with his fiancee in Bryncethin, Bridgend, attacked the 10-year-old girl as she rode her bike, and also exposed and touched himself in front of the girl's younger friend at The Wilderness Lake, off Heol-y-Goedwig, Porthcawl in October.